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Leesburg, Ohio | Please point out to me, Chad, where I said banding does not work? In fact, I said above that the crop CAN get all or most of its nutrients from the band.
What I did say is that you cannot grow a crop long term by replacing less than crop removal rates without depleting the soil. Show me one book that has been scientifically peer reviewed that says you can grow a crop on less than crop removal rates of fertilizer long term. Fact is, you can't.
As far as the previous post about grazing of corn/corn stalks being 50's technology...maybe it was tried then, I don't know. I see no reason it can't work now, and there are more operations, small and large, utilizing rotational grazing methods. Why can't it work? Seems to me cattle would finish much easier, more efficiently, and with a better-tasting end product by grazing corn than by grazing only grass. I am talking about management-intensive-grazing, where the cattle are turned onto new forage daily or every two or three days. | |
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